Artists
Cyprien Gaillard Born in 1980 in Paris, France | Lives and works in Berlin
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Cyprien Gaillard
Foto: Alexia Cayre
French-bornCyprien Gaillardis one of the shooting stars of the international art scene. Most recently, in 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Prize of the National Gallery for Young Art in Berlin. Strictly speaking not committed to any medium, he moves between photography, film, and installations.
His interest in the functions of ruins in a global world drilled in perfection, superficiality, and speed is evident in his fleeting smoke sculptures in different environments, his ongoing Polaroid project,Geographical Analogies, his useable and self-destructing beer pyramids in the Berlin Kunst-Werken (2011), and his prize-winning film shot in the vicinity of Babylon in Iraq titledArtefacts. Gaillard’s immense success is also based in the fact that he presents the escapism and the nostalgia of a younger generation as works of art similar to the perfect pop songs in music and enriches them with historical references. Gaillard’s spectacular work finds inspiration in artists of the 1960s like Robert Smithson but links can also be found to Gustav Metzger’s concept of “Auto-Destructive Art.”
Education
| 2005 | LĂ©cole Cantonale d`Art de Lausanne (ECAL), Lausanne, Switzerland |
Awards (selection)
| 2011 | Preis der Nationalgalerie fĂĽr junge Kunst 2011, Berlin |
| 2010 | Prix Marcel Duchamp, Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l’Art |
Solo exhibitions (selection)
| 2011 |
Neon Indian, Berliner KĂĽnstlerprogramm/ DAAD, Berlin Cyprien Gaillard, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2010, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Cyprien Gaillard. The Recovery of Discovery, KW Institute for ContemporaryArt,Berlin You Are Here: Architecture and Experience, Carnegie Museum of Art, The Heinz Architectural Center, Pittsburgh, USA |
| 2010 |
Cyprien Gaillard, Zollamt / Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main Obstacles to Renewal, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Disquieting Landscapes, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, USA Directions: Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres, Hirschhorn Museumand Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA The Berlin Archive 2009–10, 032c Workshop, Berlin |
| 2009 |
Sedimented Landscapes, Laoratorio978, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporá de Castila y León, León, Spanien Cyprien Gaillard, Live at Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London, Great Britain Cyprien Gaillard, FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims, France Pruitt-Igoe Falls, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel Beton Belvedere, Stroom Den Haag, Netherlands |
| 2008 |
Cyprien Gaillard, SMS Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy Glasgow 2014, The Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, Great Britain Le Canard de Beaugrenelle, CAC - Centre d`art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny sur Orge, France Real Remnants of Fictive Wars I, Centre dart Les Eglises, Chelles, France |
| 2007 |
Homes & Graves & Gardens, Centre d`art et du Paysage de lIle de Vassivière, Vassivière, France Pentagone, L`Atelier du Musee du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| 2011 |
Ausstellung Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Based in Berlin, Atelierhaus Monbijoupark, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy Belvedere. Why Is Landscape Beautiful, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen Paris – Dehli – Bombay, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France French Window: Looking at Contemporary Art through the Marcel Duchamp Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
| 201 |
UEBERMODELS, Program – Initiative for Art and Architecture Collaborations, Berlin 10.000 Lives, Gwangju Biennal, Gwangju, South Korea Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, Japan |
| 2009 |
Platform 2009, KIMUSA, Seoul, South Korea Modernism as a Ruin. An Archaeology of the Present, Generali Foundation, Wien, Austria Summertime; or, Close-ups on Places Weve (Never) Been – An Exhibition of Film and Video Work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York, USA Sounds and Visions. Art Film and Video from Europe, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel |
| 2008 |
Sudden White, Royal Academy, London, Great Britain Re-construction, Biennial of Young Artists, Bukarest, Romania I desired what you were, I need what you are, Maze, Turin, Italy Art Focus 2008, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, Israel Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea Can Art Do More, Art Focus 5, Pavillion, Jerusalem, Israel 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin |